Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by martin_a on Thursday November 18, 2021 @10:37AM
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The problem with Munich was lobbyism, they were almost done with porting all their systems.
Re:German state planning to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice
by chrisseaton on Thursday November 18, 2021 @01:30PM
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> Their current processes are optimized for windows to a degree that usage of the Microsoft office suite is part of the training they undergo.
Isn't it just regular office software? What processes do you have for dealing with spreadsheets and text documents?
Yes, but the failure was basically manufactured. You cannot keep every process as it was before and just install Linux/libre office, yet that is what they did.
Their current processes are optimized for windows to a degree that usage of the Microsoft office suite is part of the training they undergo.
Switching at this point would be a multi-year process that cannot be rushed. Each task needs to be evaluated separately and a new solution has to be tested and likely engineered from the ground up.